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akcIimber
climber
Eagle River, AK
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 23, 2006 - 10:46pm PT
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The cover photo(Buyers Guide 2006) made Beth Rodden look like death warmed over. Actually, she didn't even look warm, she looked like a frozen corpse like you would find on Everest.
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wildone
climber
right near the beach, boyeee (lord have mercy)
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Feb 23, 2006 - 11:48pm PT
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This thread is useless without pics.
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John Mac
Trad climber
Littleton, CO
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Feb 23, 2006 - 11:54pm PT
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Yes, an icy cold and bleached out cover shot, followed by worthless pages of tables about numbers. Do people actully buy it.
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akcIimber
climber
Eagle River, AK
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 24, 2006 - 12:04am PT
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No pictures as they don't update their website until months after the mag actually hits the stands.
Beth is a little hottie and they just ruined her appearance. She looks like the poster child for skin cancer risk.
I don't buy it, they keep sending it long after I let the subscription lapse. Climbing is doing the same thing. Thanks for the free mags guys.
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Holdplease2
Big Wall climber
Yosemite area
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Feb 24, 2006 - 01:36am PT
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Dudes, she looks like a starving vampire. Seriously.
She looks like a picture of mark twight I saw once where he wasn't looking too good at all.
For the record, I think she usually looks fine. Its just the photo.
-Kate.
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up2top
Big Wall climber
Phoenix, AZ
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Feb 24, 2006 - 02:25am PT
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What, you're expecting good copy from the industry rags? I stopped buying either mag over a year ago and every time I take a peek at the news stand it seems they just get worse with time. How long can R&I circle the drain? I mean, its amazing.
Ed
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426
Sport climber
Holy Roller. LRC. TN.
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Feb 24, 2006 - 08:06am PT
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Urban Climber kicks @ss. I've got my wristbands on right now
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Feb 24, 2006 - 09:46am PT
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I, uhh, thought she looked great...
I'll leave the low hanging fruit since she's sans cams or other climbing equipage on her person...
Yeah, different look for her. Its ok.
-Brian in SLC
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cintune
climber
Penn's Woods
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Feb 24, 2006 - 10:21am PT
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Looks like a bad airbrush job to me. The whole issue makes very little sense; it's supposed to be a gear guide but there's no gear on the cover; it claims to review "every pad money can buy" but it doesn't (where's the Pagan Gear pad?); it totally ignores passive pro and belay widgets; all in all it looks like it was just slapped together to meet deadline. I liked some of the little mini-stories they used to introduce each section but other than that...
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Ed Bannister
Mountain climber
Victorville, CA
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Feb 24, 2006 - 10:37am PT
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Thinking... not much since Neal Kaptan, who founded the mag in please forgive me, LA. Where is the dynomaster these days?
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Rhodo-Router
Trad climber
Otto, NC
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Feb 24, 2006 - 02:31pm PT
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It's a big advert, nada mas.
OK story about Michael Gilbert lobbing for 60' in a Whillans harness(the word 'tortion' came up).... that sounds like a new thread topic!
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Pman
Trad climber
Upstate NY
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Feb 24, 2006 - 03:08pm PT
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I think the cover photo is over exposed, was this an accident or is there a dual meaning here? Does someone think Beth is getting to much hype? A conspiracy theory I admit. Whats up with no Alien cams in the review or did I miss them somewhere?
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cultureshock
Big Wall climber
Wall Climber Wannabe
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Feb 24, 2006 - 05:43pm PT
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Havent seen the mag but found this over on rc.com
is this the photo yall are talking about?
If not here is the thread about beth being a hottie:
http://www.rockclimbing.com/topic/107685
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cintune
climber
Penn's Woods
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Feb 24, 2006 - 08:01pm PT
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Nope, that's not it. But thanks for sharing. Really. Thanks.
Is that a cam in Tommy's pocket?
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akcIimber
climber
Eagle River, AK
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 24, 2006 - 08:03pm PT
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That ain't Tommy, that is Chris McNamara.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Feb 24, 2006 - 08:06pm PT
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Gotta admit though, that is a pretty silly picture. How do you keep a straight face when posing for stuff like that?
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Gene
climber
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Feb 24, 2006 - 08:08pm PT
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She's going for her chalk bag. Or her mace, pistol, or makeup mirror.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Feb 24, 2006 - 08:21pm PT
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It could be I'm just really old now but she still looks more like a pixie than a hottie to me.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
one pass away from the big ditch
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Feb 25, 2006 - 10:21pm PT
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serious, that r&i cover is crap.
i don't care who the climber is, the photo made the person look funky.
Beth, you need to sue.
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psychadelic
Social climber
sea of mushrooms
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Feb 25, 2006 - 11:33pm PT
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Dude, that chick looks so young! Like the kind of girl I'd look at and think, you know she is probably lieing about being legal. You know what I'm saying, you want to but you know it is wrong and illegal? Well I don't know about wrong, I mean some of us have no problems with it... no not me, just some other guy who is more bold than me and older.
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Dapper Dan
climber
an 89' honda accord
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Feb 25, 2006 - 11:54pm PT
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am i the only one who thinks it's way cool that our founding father and fearless leader C-Mac is the one holding Mrs. Caldwell?
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psychadelic
Social climber
sea of mushrooms
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Feb 25, 2006 - 11:55pm PT
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You read my mind... sicky!
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Feb 26, 2006 - 02:24pm PT
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I've always thought that Beth looked very young for her age, and I've read articles by her where she seemed to lament thinking the same thing. Even though the new R&I cover photo had a creepy overexposure, I noticed that Beth looked like an adult woman in it and wondered if she was psyched that her look was changing.
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Apocalypsenow
Trad climber
Cali
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Feb 26, 2006 - 02:27pm PT
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The "airbrush" may have made her look older...but she is going to always sound 15.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Feb 26, 2006 - 02:32pm PT
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That pic brings up so many questions: What is that thing, some big ass cordelette? Why is his shirt all rucked up like a female impersonator? Did some fluffer add the droplets of sweat on her thigh? Did the production designer think that would be "hot"?
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Feb 26, 2006 - 08:17pm PT
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Tacky sh#t. -the one we can see. But someone thinks it will make them money, and they are probably right.
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bringmeshelter
Social climber
la la land
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Feb 26, 2006 - 08:58pm PT
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No offense to climber girls, cause you are all cool, but seriously if people want me to find some climbing pic hot... they will be far better off using actully hot chicks instead of climbers. When I want to go find hot girls, I don't make my way to anything that has to do with climbing. Tho sometimes there is hot girls at the gym... but they still look like they are 12 and are super thin and flatter chested than I am.
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stinky
climber
Woodward OK
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Feb 26, 2006 - 08:59pm PT
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you do live in lala land.
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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Feb 26, 2006 - 09:39pm PT
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Notice the pattern of bruising on the leg?
Fingers?
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akcIimber
climber
Eagle River, AK
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 26, 2006 - 09:41pm PT
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Feb 26, 2006 - 09:42pm PT
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..."they will be far better off using actully hot chicks instead of climbers"...
Perhaps you don't consider them hot because the "hot chick" pictures you are used to are entirely artificial, using teenage women to portray adult images, and then airbrushed to
"perfection"......
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bringmeshelter
Social climber
la la land
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Feb 26, 2006 - 10:16pm PT
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I'm talking about people I know, not models or pornstars.
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Anal C#nt
Boulder climber
Bald Knob, AR
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Feb 27, 2006 - 12:58pm PT
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Jeebus crispies I hope she isn't actually your wife. Not because she is unattractive (she's quite pretty) but because of the unwanted attention those sorts of shots gather on the intarweb. Who knows maybe she likes to bask. It's your marriage hombre.
As for Mrs. Caldwell she is quite pretty but she also looks like a kid. Not just some oversexed highschool freshman but a KID, as in, hey pass the crayons and finger paints, the moon bounce is over there, KID. Gee, it's 8pm, past your bedtime, KID. 80lbs.
Having met her in person at the gym, and thought she was a friend's 11-year-old daughter (when Ms. Rodden was 19? 20? this was back in 2000) I feel vaguely uncomfortable every time this sh#t crops up. Like overhearing some old crinkly car-club inmates talk about the hot preschoolers across the street.
If you pud-pulling freaks had ever met Beth Rodden in person... well hell, you'd probably be yanking even harder for all I know. Carry on, then...
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Feb 27, 2006 - 01:01pm PT
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....ummmmm, I can think of ways to make for a pretty hot scene using a cordellette and a couple of clove hitches. Add one slightly soiled climber guy and something bomber to anchor him to .....Maybe I am too chicken to 5th class over ball nuts, but I think they could cme in handy in summmmmmmmmmm situations....
Climbers not sexy!? My word, I must disagree.
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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Feb 27, 2006 - 01:36pm PT
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Good things come in small sizes. My wife is about Beth's size. 5'1" X 95lbs, all muscle. She'll get carded until she's 40. She hasn't freed the nose yet though. Note that two small women have done it and only one guy.
akclimber: where did you get that photo? Looks like it was taken at Sunset Boulders here on the Sonoma Coast. Pelican Arete, .10a, is behind her.
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Matt
Trad climber
places you shouldn't talk about in polite company
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Feb 27, 2006 - 06:14pm PT
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does your wife know you are posting those pictures on the web?
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Feb 28, 2006 - 05:32am PT
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Forgive my ignorance but I take it that is Beth Rodden with Chris Mac at the top of the thread, but the pix that Akclimber posted, that's not Beth Rodden is it?
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akcIimber
climber
Eagle River, AK
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 28, 2006 - 03:24pm PT
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Yes, that is Beth showing her butt cheek.
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Apocalypsenow
Trad climber
Cali
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Feb 28, 2006 - 03:27pm PT
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Real sweat or Wesson oil?
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JEM
Social climber
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Ok, with so much fuss over the R & I Buyers Guide 2006 cover, I had to take a look myself. You are all right, that is truly sick. Now, would it be some sort of copyright infringement to scan that image and post it up here? Or better yet, scan it and put some dang color back in her face (and body).
John
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